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WRITER JIMMIE RODGERS
All around the water tank
Waitin for a train
A thousand miles away from home
Sleepin in the rain
I walked up to a brakeman
Just to give him a line of talk
He says if youve got money boy
Ill see that you dont walk
Well I havent got a nickle
Not a penny can I show
Get off, get off you railroad bum
And he slammed the boxcar door
Well he put me off in Texas
A state I dearly love
The wide open spaces all around me
The moon and the stars up above
Nobody seems to want me
Or to lend me a helping hand
Im on my way from Frisco
Goin back to Dixieland
Oh my pocketbook is empty
And my heart is full of pain
Im a thousand miles away from home
Waitin for a train